10 Questions for Dave Barry

Pulitzer-prizewinning humorist Dave Barry, 58, may have stopped writing his weekly column a year ago, but he managed to scrounge together some thoughts for his 27th book, out next week, Dave Barry's Money Secrets: Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar? He spoke with TIME's Jeff Chu on Neil Diamond, the state of newspapers and his own endless run for the presidency.

WHY FOCUS ON MONEY? There seem to be thousands of books out there about money, and I am basically trying to viciously mock them. They don't seem to do a lot of good. Look at how...